heise online news 15/10/2008

heise online news 15/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news "Open source is not a business model" says 451 Group A study by the 451 Group reveals there are many ways of generating revenue with open source - and the traditional service/support model is no longer dominating › Read article     Next Windows version to be officially named Windows 7 For the first time in the history of Windows, Microsoft will be keeping the codename for the final version. This name has been chosen, says the company, for the sake of simplicity › Read article     Nvidia bug also affects Apple notebooks Apple continued to use faulty Nvidia graphics chips in some of the MacBook Pro series notebooks long after the GPU's problems became known › Read article     OpenOffice.org 3.0 launch overwhelms servers OpenOffice.org 3.0's release caused a bit of a stampede to download the office productivity application, overwhelming the OpenOffice.org web site in the process › Read article     Mozilla creates developer tools team with Ajaxians Mozilla starts a new developer tools group and gets the people who created Ajaxian to head it up, with one of them moving from Google › Read article     Press locked out of Linux Foundation End User Summit? The press are kept out of the Linux Foundation's End User Collaboration Summit and will only be given a summary of the presentations by corporations using Linux › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.